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1) "We have to destroy it in order to save it" syndrome. Urbit's central thesis is "the internet is broken because Google and Facebook" but Google and Facebook didn't exploit flaws in the internet itself, just flaws in the incentive structure of our society.

2) Like Mencius Moldbug, Urbit is an intellectual shellgame Yarvin is playing to obfuscate what he's really up to. In Moldbug's case it's the return of kings as legitimate absolute rulers. For Urbit, it's getting people to sign on to being serfs in his digital kingdom.